Consensus Quotes

265 quotes by 230 authors

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is… — J. William Fulbright
Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's… — Larisa Oleynik
Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more… — Tom Wicker
I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe,… — Todd Rundgren
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten
In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the… — Ed Balls
There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this… — Michelle Bachelet
I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places. — Catherine Ashton
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled… — Gavyn Davies
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve… — William A. Dembski
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid… — Joe Eszterhas
If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first:… — Tim Ferriss
Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis.… — David Graeber
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it… — David Graeber
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. — Chuck Grassley
Up until 'Bridesmaids,' the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer. — Judd Apatow
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the… — Martin Chemnitz
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development… — Sigmar Gabriel
There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need… — Ruben Hinojosa
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

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